AN INDEPENDENCE FROM EUROPEFormer UK MEP Mike Nattrass

UKIP Head of policy forgets he wrote the
"junk"

Sunday, February 9 2014

Subject: EXPRESS AND STAR and UKIP

The Head of Policy for UKIP, Tim Aker has supported attacks,
by Farage, on the first real UKIP Manifesto (see below); claiming
that, "The previous head of policy put together a manifesto
that was almost 500 pages of junk.”

Surprisingly Mr Aker has had a University education, though
you might be forgiven if you were to question its value, for he
clearly has an appalling memory! You see Mr Aker was the
co-author of this self same document.

One has to wonder at the credibility of any other comments
received from Mr Aker???

See below for an excellent riposte to Akek's comments from
Mike Nattrass MEP.

This is a UKIP Leadership attack, via The Express and
Star, on David Campbell-Bannerman the former UKIP Party Chairman
who spent long hours and coordinated many committees to create
the first real UKIP manifesto.

A manifesto discussed and blessed at UKIP conferences
and supported by the Leader.

But hold on, those policies were
co-written by this person interviewed by the Express and Star
"Tim Aker," he assisted DCB at the time ... where does
he say that?
"My policies were rubbish says Aker" ... double
checked, no not there!

Subsequently at the UKIP Conference in
Birmingham, under the watchful eye of the Leader, a policy to
exterminate all Grey Squirrels was launched by UKIP MEP Stuart
Agnew. This after David C-B had already left, having been deemed
a tree rat, so don't blame him. This policy also applied to
Euro Sceptic Grey Squirrels, presumably to expose any reds under
the bed?

So, secret squirrel, you think the new policies,
constantly changed on the hoof by the UKIP Leader are better or
just nuts?

UKIP’s last manifesto was nearly 500 pages of
‘junk’, but it plans on becoming the main opposition
on at least one West Midlands council, its new head of policy has
said.

In an interview with the Express & Star, Tim Aker said he
expected the party to win three of the seven West Midlands seats
in the European Parliament in the elections in May.

And he is expecting that the eurosceptics will also become the
‘senior opposition’ on Dudley Council, replacing the
Conservatives.

"UKIP head of policy Tim
Aker

He defended party leader Nigel Farage, who denounced
UKIP’s 2010 election manifesto as ‘486 pages of
quasi-academic ramblings and random thoughts which should never
have been put near a UKIP logo’.

Mr Aker said: “The old manifesto died after the last
General Election. You don’t get journalists asking David
Cameron about the Tories planning to privatise the London
Underground in 1997. We’ve always believed in leaving the
European Union. That has not changed. The previous head of policy
put together a manifesto that was almost 500 pages of
junk.”

But UKIP has been under intense scrutiny, particularly since
its success in last year’s county council elections.

One of its members, Oxfordshire councillor David Silvester,
was suspended after he continued to give media interviews
following his claims that recent flooding was punishment for the
Tories bringing in gay marriage, the reason he defected from the
party to UKIP. Eric Kitson, who was elected to represent
Stourport on Worcestershire County Council, stood down after just
13 days after it emerged he had been posting racist and offensive
comments on Facebook.

Asked if UKIP had managed to stop any members from causing
further embarrassment, Mr Aker said: “We’re getting
there.

“We have a very thorough scrutiny process. But the
Tories have full-time staff going through the Facebook and
Twitter of our candidates.

“It’s a dirty tricks campaign from the
Conservatives.”

And Mr Aker said the party was getting more exposure, amid
concerns that its only well known names were either Mr Farage or
mavericks like Godfrey Bloom, who was stripped of the party whip
after comments about ‘sluts’.

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